Your first ever Bertuzzday award winner is ... Matt Cooke! Let’s take a look at the poll results (super cute pie graph can be found here):
Matt Cooke: 96 votes (69%)
Colin Campbell: 26 votes (19%)
“Other": 11 votes (8%)
Steve Mason: 7 votes (5%)
The real highlight - for me anyway - was reading some of the user submitted responses for “other.” Here are some of the anonymous entries (misspellings and grammatical errors left blissfully untouched):
“JAMES O’BRIEN”
“Bob Probert”
“Gary Betteman"(sic)
“Maxim Lapierre for boarding San Jose center Scott Nichol” (yeah, I missed that one for sure)
“yourweakmindedO’Brien”
“I have to give this first vote to Corey Perry as he is a goalie seeking missle”
“Sean Avery for being Sean Avery”
Congratulations (I guess?) go to Matt Cooke whose true reward will be skating around the ice with a bounty on his head for quite some time (especially against Boston). To keep things simple, I’ll have this week’s nominees a little bit later today. There’s a good chance Mr. Ovechkin will earn a nomination.